Effects of Movies

I thoroughly enjoyed both the play and the film.  The beauty of movies is the fact that a director can add sounds, lighting, and special effects to intensify the impact of a scene.  A good example of sound intensifying a scene is when Blanche feels accused by Stella when she asks about Belle Reve.  As Blanche backs up and denies that losing the land was her fault, the streetcar on the tracks gets louder and louder.  The use of echoing voices when Stanley asks Blanche about her ex husband and what happened to him portrays how Blanche thinks and how insane and desperate she is.  The echoes were used in the end as well when she is being taken away by the doctors and she said she forgot something.  Of course, there are usually differences between books and movies, yet this film only had minor changes.  An example of this is how we actually get to view the bowling alley in the film, yet in the play it is only mentioned.  Talented actors can truly bring characters in books to life as well.  Marlon Brando, a buff, handsome, hunk, brought predatory sexiness and flare to the film.  The actress who played Blanche provided harsh, disturbing screams as she is apprehended and wrestled to the ground in the end of the film.  The end of the story was clearly altered as well.  Stella, covered in tears, tells the baby she will never go back to Stanley and runs up the stairs to Eunice's apartment.  It is still uncertain to me if she will go back to him, but she most likely will, just as she did when he called out Stella from below the staircase earlier.